Open Science NL
Overview
Open Science NL is the Dutch national programme for open science, formally launched on 29 March 2023 as a task force (regieorgaan) within NWO, the Netherlands Research Council. Its founding basis is the NPOS 2030 Ambition Document and Rolling Agenda, developed in 2022 by a coalition of 16 partner organisations including universities, research funders, umbrella organisations, and infrastructure providers, and backed by a Dutch government coalition agreement that open education and open science should become the norm. Minister Dijkgraaf subsequently allocated €20 million annually to the programme as of 2022. Open Science NL works through four mechanisms: dedicated funding instruments for open science activities, community empowerment, capacity building and training, and infrastructure development, operating in two-year strategic cycles governed by a Steering Board.
Work Programmes
The first work programme ran from 2024 to 2025, covering funding instruments for open access, research data, open software, and replication studies. The second work programme (2026 to 2027), approved by the Steering Board in November 2025, covers thirteen instruments across the full open science spectrum including citizen science, AI and open science, replication, and open infrastructure.
Connections
- Part of: NWO (Netherlands Research Council, not a vault node)
- National open access framework: cOAlition S
Resources
- https://www.openscience.nl (main portal)
- https://www.openscience.nl/en/mission-and-vision (mission and vision)
- https://www.openscience.nl/en/about-open-science-nl (programme structure)